STEAMER ABANDONED,
FIRE ON THE PAPABOA.
SAFETY OF PASSENGERS.
CREW ALSO RESCUED
TAKEN OFF BY A LINER.
BOUND FOR CAPETOWN
By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. (Received 1.5 a.m.) A. and N.Z.-Keuter. SYDNEY, March IP. Underwriters in Sydney have received advice of a serious fire in No. 3 hold on the steamer Paparoa, which is now off the south-west coast of South Africa. A late message from Capetown states that the fire broke out. when the Paparoa was about 500 miles from Capetown. Site was bound to Australia from the United Kingdom and was due to call at Capetown. The Australian liners. Barrabool. Diogenes, and Heneas all responded to the call for help late at night. All the Paparoa's passengers and 24 of the crew were transferred to the Barrabool and the remainder of ihe crew stood by. Finally the Paparoa had to be abandoned at 11 p.m.
The crew and passengers are due at Capetown on Friday aboard the Barrabool.
The Paparoa is a steel twin-screw steamer of 7737 tons gross register and was built at Dumbarton in 1899 for the New Zealand Shipping Company her present owners. She left Liverpool on her present voyagj on February 20 for Adelaide, Melbourne, Geelong, Sydney and Brisbane.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19280, 19 March 1926, Page 11
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